How painful is this gonna be?

stephenw

hello,
I'm playing my first airsoft game this weekend.I shall be wearing a tac vest,bdu pants and a hoodie.I'm just wondering, how painful will this be,let's say getting hit by an aeg at 15 metres,hitting 328fps with a .2
and could you possibly compare it to another sensation similar to it?
thank you.

NakedDex

At 15 metres it will feeling somewhat akin to someone dropping an AA battery on your forearm from about four feet.
In other words, you'll feel it, but it won't hurt. Unlike a dentist saying that, I'm not lying.

stephenw

tried that......fel's like someone poking you,i'd be alright with that.

ronan keane

I will feel like someone stabbed you 500 times with a sharp rusty Knife through your "Private Parts"............J/K it is more like being pinched

TNTQ

The most painful thing will be looking into your wallet after 6 months of gaming...wondering how...

Osmosis Jones

yeah it barely hurts at all (most of the time)

ronan keane

TNTQ wrote: »

The most painful thing will be looking into your wallet after 6 months of gaming...wondering how...

I spent €700 before I even played a game....

MerryDespot

It's grand OP - if you get shot in the face from close range that'll hurt, but even the worst hit I've ever had (basically point blank in the face, dude fired at someone further away and I walked around a building corner into the shot) stung for a second (think something that makes you shout "you bastard!") and then was grand.

As Dex said - the sensation is enough so that you know you've been hit - but it's not even enough to be registered as pain.

NakedDex

The worst feeling place to be shot is the knuckles at close range really. Anywhere bone is close to skin surface will sting like a sod, but you get over it pretty fast. Wear gloves to ward that off if it's a concern.

swiftblade

NakedDex wrote: »

The worst feeling place to be shot is the knuckles at close range really. Anywhere bone is close to skin surface will sting like a sod, but you get over it pretty fast. Wear gloves to ward that off if it's a concern.

Got shot in the ear last week. I swear I thought there was going to be a hole right through it. Serves me right for not wearing a hat

To be honest those type of shots are 1 in a million. I've been airsofting for 4 years and it was the first time it happened. Most of the time it's a simple nip. A kin to getting pinched.

I can also nearly guarantee you the first time you're playing, adrenaline pumping, you will find it hard to even feel the shots

MonkeyGuy

I have fierce bad luck for getting shot in sore places... Face, neck, hands, ears, crotch... I'm kinda used to it. I still swear at people when it happens but the pain goes away very quickly, especially if you come back and shoot that mother-loving SoB. Although one time this guy knife killed me... blood eberywhere... The I pressed square and respawned.

But seriously, don't worry about it! The pain you get in your legs from crouching and kneeling and sprinting is worse, if you can even count it as sore. I had the same fear the first time I played, the first time you get hit you'll say, "That's not so bad" and then you'll love it!

Osmosis Jones

ronan keane wrote: »

I spent €700 before I even played a game....

what did you buy? a site?:)

SgtBob

NakedDex wrote: »

The worst feeling place to be shot is the knuckles at close range really. Anywhere bone is close to skin surface will sting like a sod, but you get over it pretty fast. Wear gloves to ward that off if it's a concern.

Last time out, got it in the nipple from 2 metres. that hurt more that getting hit in the ear and the knuckle combined!

Leftyflip

SgtBob wrote: »

Last time out, got it in the nipple from 2 metres. that hurt more that getting hit in the ear and the knuckle combined!

TM Shotty from 5 feet in the nipple - lovely triangle around it :pac:

Damn you flashinbluelight!

NakedDex

I got hit in the back if the throat while shouting movement orders. Swallowed the round too.

MonkeyGuy

NakedDex wrote: »

I got hit in the back if the throat while shouting movement orders. Swallowed the round too.

I caught one in my mouth the other day while shouting hit from a BBs which hit my Adam's apple. Then spat it out all hardy like.

Damo 2k9

Got one really sore one in the warehouse, well a really sore 5. Was kneeled down, someone comes behind me and shoots a burst of about 5 from about 2 feet away in the lower back. OUCH!

At a night game in fingal, i have an earphone earpiece for my radio and it got shot out of my ear, it was sore but i was freaked out by it more than i was sore

SgtBob

NakedDex wrote: »

I got hit in the back if the throat while shouting movement orders. Swallowed the round too.

K, you win...

UnkieKev

Put it this way, before you play a game go out of the safe zone (with a mask on of course!) and ask one of your buddies to shoot you from 15 feet away, it's not gonna kill you, and it will save you from cowering in a bush wondering "how much will it hurt!?" afraid to run and grab that flag!

and yes it hurts, but it's not bad! like a mini pinch, last a second!

Inari

UnkieKev wrote: »

Put it this way, before you play a game go out of the safe zone (with a mask on of course!) and ask one of your buddies to shoot you from 15 feet away, it's not gonna kill you, and it will save you from cowering in a bush wondering "how much will it hurt!?" afraid to run and grab that flag!

A lot of people recommend this approach, and if it's something that appeals to you, then by all means go for it! Personally, I wouldn't recommend it.

What does getting shot feel like? A really REALLY (and I mean really) powerful flick. I can't stress it enough, that it is a powerful flick. But now matter how strong you get flicked, it always fades fast, and it's more shock than pain. Airsoft hits are no different. The problems come when you get full-auto flicks...they pack more of a punch.

My advice is to invest in GOOD reputable eye protection, a lower mask (or full face mask) to give you confidence, and not to bother shooting yourself, or getting someone to shoot you. Just play. You'll eventually get hit and know what it feels like

Firekitten

I'm not so sure I agree... Everyone always says it feels like a 'powerful flick' as Inari so simply puts it, but I'll be bruitally honest, it hurts a wee bit more to me.

In general, it depends where you're hit. Soft tissue... Yeah, powerful flick (from an angry god), catch it on a joint or shallow bone? yowch.... painful, but nothing thats going to put you off the game.

Occasionally you get an epic space time defying flux capacitor shot, that hits between your nostrils, your ear, a knuckle... private body areas I won't go into.... and you jump up and down and scream like a child... then laugh at yourself.

While ill be honest, it can really hurt sometimes, its more rare than common, and its a brief experience, that you laugh at.

Would it preclude you playing? pah, nah, it shouldnt. It simply provides incentive, to run faster, get in cover quicker, and shoot better :P

Zomg Okay

Worst place I've been shot is the ear - stung like a bitch for a good five minutes until I realised the BB was stuck in my fecking ear!

Other than the occasional one, most of them will just feel like a series of light pokes and the ones that you do feel usually stop being painful after a moment.

Floodric

I find the most painful ones are inside the thighs. Got a few nasty stingers last time i was in the office block. From close range too! A bad shot is enough to make you curse yourself or the shooter, but most you only feel, as apposed to hurt

Inari

Getting shot anywhere where the skin is taught hurts more, as there's less shock absorption, and the force is not properly dissipated. Instead, it delivers all of it's kinetic energy straight into its point of impact. Getting shot where bone meets skin is the same...less room for the shot to be absorbed.

Knuckle shots hurt. Lots. I very quickly learned to wear gloves

Faolchu

headshots hurt for a bit leave a lovely welt too. got hit twice in the forehead over the weekend, look like i have 4 eyes now LOL but i wear them like badges of stupidity for sticking my head out when i did.

seriously though some hits will hurt for a few seconds, but you move on and get the fecker back that hit you

mafo

Pain is comparable to childbirth:D

Firekitten

mafo wrote: »

Pain is comparable to childbirth:D

Chearly this man is both single, and childless.




(PS: Sissy!)

Salaas

You get used to it, or at least I did.
Think my most painful experience was when I got shot point blank in the hands by some idiot who decided to shoot full auto in a semi- section for CQB *Ironically had just been looking at gloves to buy but they were out of stock*
My hands were destroyed with blisters and cuts from it as it was pretty bad.

Since then I've gotten gloves and have most sensitive areas covered so not had a repeat experience.
Its more amusing after a game when I'm in the gym having a shower and someone goes "wtf happened to you?" and you realise there's a couple of welts that you never felt, though at the time you would have called the hit but not thought it left a mark.

Arkslippy

Salaas wrote: »

You get used to it, or at least I did.
Think my most painful experience was when I got shot point blank in the hands by some idiot who decided to shoot full auto in a semi- section for CQB *Ironically had just been looking at gloves to buy but they were out of stock*
My hands were destroyed with blisters and cuts from it as it was pretty bad.

Since then I've gotten gloves and have most sensitive areas covered so not had a repeat experience.
Its more amusing after a game when I'm in the gym having a shower and someone goes "wtf happened to you?" and you realise there's a couple of welts that you never felt, though at the time you would have called the hit but not thought it left a mark.

I'd be more worried that people are checking you out in the gym showers.

TerrenceAnth

Worst places iv been hit are hands, neck, ear anywhere you wouldn't want to get hit. At a distance its fine but what ever you do dont life your mask ever or put your hand out to save yourself from a gun in your face.

I was playing fingal and another player and myself where in kill house i walked round the corner he pointed his barrel in my face i grabbed it to push it away but..... 7 bbs to the hand later and i regretted it =(

Alot of players use the bang rule but alot more do not!

Salaas

Arkslippy, can't help it if everyone wants me. :P

Bang bang rule is a optional thing cuz I've played some matches where people take it to the cleaners. Had one guy tell me I was hit cuz he said bang to me from 20 feet away or having people run into a room screaming Bang Bang! and expecting you to take it as a hit even though you've your gun next to their head.

dinko4gr

bang and the dirt is gone ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwPTcgyOIw

P.S. The airsoft pistol is under 1J !!!

Leftyflip

Usually when I give a bang kill it's "Bang! *very quick follow up shot*"
Sorts it all out..

Inari

The way I have always worked the Bang kill is I have my gun trained on them and I offer it "Bang" - if I see one milisecond of hesitation they get a shot to the most padded area i.e. where the gun was trained, usually tac vest. That way I have offered the kill, and kept within the confines of it (only offer it if you actually have the shot)